Ok,
this is my first fic for Tsubasa, dedicated to my most beloved
character, Kurogane. Hope you like it!

Enjoy!

The Magic Box

Kurogane
sat staring at the big iron box squatted before him on the wooden
table. He cocked his head from side to side, examining it from
different angles. Then he frowned, sat back against the couch and
scratched his head.

Fai
D. had called this thing a…tiivii, yeah, that was it. But till now,
nothing special striked him about this box, so why the hell did it
have a special name? Why not simply call it a box and get it over
with! Fai had told him to watch the box, and here he was, watching
it…and getting more frustrated by the minute; why should he watch
over a stupid box! It wasn't like it was going to run away from him
or anything!

'Kurorin?
Why aren't you watching Tv?'

Kurogane
turned around at the sound of the magician. Fai was leaning against
the back of the couch, watching him with an amused expression on his
face.

'But
I am watching it!' Kurogane said angrily. 'And the damned thing
won't do a thing!'

Fai
grinned. 'That's because you haven't even turned it on, Kuropi!' he
told him.

'Eh?'
Kurogane said, blankly. Turn it on?

Fai
reached out for a black thing lying on the coffee table. 'Here, let
me do it for you' he offered.

Kurogane
watched closely as Fai pressed a button on the black rectangular
thing. Then swiveled around as he heard some singing from the
direction of the black box. He stared.

'Ack!'
he cried, staring at the woman singing in the TV. 'How'd you do
that! What's she doing in there!'

He
jumped forward and grabbed the TV. He started shaking it roughly.
'Hey, lady! You got enough space in there!' he cried, frantically.
He paused. 'Hey! Go get your own tiivii! This one's mine!'

The
woman suddenly vanished. Kurogane started to sigh in relief, but
paused when he saw the little bomb appeared in the box, lying
solitarily on the ground. He stared at it for a moment.

'Duck!
It's gonna explode!' he screamed.

He
jumped up behind the couch, tackling Fai to the ground with him, n
such a way that he fell on top of Fai.

Seconds
later, the bomb exploded, and the explosion sounded loudly in the
room, but…there was no fire, no explosion…

Kurogane
straightened up as he heard Fai laughing from beneath him. 'What the
hell are you laughing at!' he demanded angrily, grabbing Fai by the
front. 'Why was there no explosion? What did you do!'

Fai
scrambled up to his feet and dusted his clothes. Kurogane got up from
the floor too, and started glaring the TV.

'Ok,
Kurorin, sit down and let me explain' Fai said, patting the position
next to him on the couch, and looking like a father inviting his son
to a bedtime story.

Scowling,
Kurogane sat down on the couch. 'Don't you try any more of your magic
tricks on me, get it?' he hissed.

'But,
Kuro-chan, I didn't do any magic' Fai said, innocently.

'What
do you call that thing you did with that box!' Kurogane demanded.
'Or is a magic box on its own?'

Fai
laughed. 'Kurorin! You're so cute when you're all confused like
that!' he gushed.

'I'm
not cute!' Kurogane fumed. 'Now tell me what this thing is already!'
He jabbed a finger at the TV, where the scene had switched to a
street filled with debris and bodies scattered on the road. He stared
in horror. 'Mustn't we go help those people!'

'Kuropipi,
this is called a TV' Fai explained slowly.

'I
know, you told me first time' Kurogane mumbled. 'What does it do?
Does it suck people into it or what?'

'Those
people aren't real' Fai said slowly, as if he were explaining all
this to a three-year-old.

'Not
real? How can they not be real?' Kurogane said, incredulously. 'Look,
they're as real as you and me…they have two eyes, one nose, one…'

Fai
shook his head, smiling jovially. 'No, Kurorin! You got me all wrong!
They're real…but not real at the same time' he told him.

Kurogane
stared at Fai. 'Will you make up your mind?' he said angrily.

'Ok,
here's how it is' Fai said, and took a deep breath. 'Those people are
shot using a camera to produce a motion picture, after that, the
producers of this movie use networks and connections and send the
movie to satellites which run in orbits around the world in the form
of signals…and in turn, those satellites use signals to send those
signals to our receiver dishes which project them as movies on our TV
screen…so, you see, the whole purpose of TVs is to receive signals
and present them in multimedia form…get it?'